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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED)

Mark Oehlert

military intelligence agency has come up with a new tool for teaching recruits critical thinking skills: videogames. Defense Intelligence Agency has just taken delivery of three PC-based games, developed by simulation studio Visual Purple under a $2.6 million contract between the DIA and defense contractor Concurrent Technologies.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "New JKO Portal to Offer Joint Online Training" (Defense Link News)

Mark Oehlert

Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, joined Air Force Gen. Chu called JKO a major step in the Defense Department’s training transformation effort to improve how it prepares its people for their missions around the world. government agencies, foreign militaries and non-governmental organizations, he said.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): So here I sit, technically in-between jobs.

Mark Oehlert

federal government working in the e-Learning Technology Center (eLTC) at the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay So today was my last day at Booz Allen Hamilton. Coast Guard. books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Kindle: Tom Crawford Executes a Perfect Double Rebuttal with a Twist

Mark Oehlert

Military (strategy+business) » December 07, 2007 The Kindle: Tom Crawford Executes a Perfect Double Rebuttal with a Twist Tom Crawford rebutted my defense of his rebuttal of my original post. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Firefox and Opera.You Are Both Pissing Me Off!!

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Heading Home from I/ITSEC 2007

Mark Oehlert

of Defense that works in those areas (training, simulation and education). Spelled out that is the InterService and Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference. Spelled out that is the InterService and Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference. See why we call it IITSEC? This is essentially everyone in the U.S.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

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5 Must-See PowerPoint Tutorials for Creating Better Training - Mindflash , September 29, 2010 From the New York Times to the US Military , 2010 may go down as the year PowerPoint-hating went mainstream. Best of eLearning Learning in September 2010. As always, great stuff found in the eLearning world in September.